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American linguist (born 1971)

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Peter K. Norquest
Born	Peter Kristian Norquest (1971-08-31)August 31, 1971 (age 54) Boise, Idaho, United States
Occupation	Linguist

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Arizona
Thesis	A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (2007)
Doctoral advisor	Jane H. Hill andDiana B. Archangeli
Academic work
Discipline	Historical linguistics
Institutions	University of Arizona
Main interests	Kra–Dai languages
Notable works	A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (2015)

Peter K. Norquest (born August 31, 1971^[1]) is an American linguist who specializes inKra–Dai historical linguistics.

Education

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Norquest attended theUniversity of Arizona's Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics,^[2] where he studied underJane H. Hill andDiana B. Archangeli. As part of his doctoral research, he participated in aFulbright fellowship inHainan, China from 2003 to 2004, where he collected field data on variousHlai languages such asNadou.^[3] In 2007, he completed his doctoral dissertation on thereconstruction ofProto-Hlai.^[4]

Career

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After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2007, Norquest was employed as a postdoctoral researcher underJ. Stephen Lansing at theUniversity of Arizona, where he worked onquantitative comparative-historical linguistic reconstruction methods^[5] and on theAustronesian languages ofNusa Tenggara.^[6]

From 2015 to 2016, Norquest was the principal investigator ofReconstructing Language Change and Variation, aNational Science Foundation project that aims to provide a revised reconstruction ofProto-Kam–Sui.^[7]

Norquest is currently working on a reconstruction ofProto-Kra–Dai. Parts of his reconstructions have been published in Norquest (2020, 2021).^[8]^[9]

Monographs and chapters

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Norquest, Peter (2015).A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Brill.doi:10.1163/9789004300521.hdl:10150/194203.ISBN 978-90-04-30052-1.
Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages".The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 225–246.doi:10.1515/9783110558142-013.ISBN 9783110558142.S2CID 238672319.

Selected articles

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Norquest, Peter (2020).A Hypothesis on the Origin of Preglottalized Sonorants in Kra-Dai. 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Vancouver: Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia.doi:10.14288/1.0389866
Norquest, Peter (2016)."Revisiting the question of Austronesian implosives".Mother Tongue. 20 (In Memory of Harold Crane Fleming (1926-2015)).
Norquest, Peter (2013)."A Revised Inventory of Proto Austronesian Consonants: Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic Evidence"(PDF).Mon-Khmer Studies.42:102–126.
Tumonggor, Meryanne K; Karafet, Tatiana M; Downey, Sean; Lansing, J Stephen; Norquest, Peter; Sudoyo, Herawati; Hammer, Michael F; Cox, Murray P (2014)."Isolation, contact and social behavior shaped genetic diversity in West Timor".Journal of Human Genetics.59 (9). Springer Science and Business Media LLC:494–503.doi:10.1038/jhg.2014.62.ISSN 1434-5161.PMC 4521296.PMID 25078354.
Downey, Sean S.; Hallmark, Brian; Cox, Murray P.; Norquest, Peter; Lansing, J. Stephen (2008). "Computational Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Developing the ALINE Distance for Comparative Historical Linguistic Reconstruction".Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.15 (4). Informa UK Limited:340–369.doi:10.1080/09296170802326681.ISSN 0929-6174.S2CID 4849552.
Norquest, Peter (2005). "Word structure in Chamic: prosodic alignment versus segmental faithfulness". In Grant, A. and Sidwell, P. editors,Chamic and Beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages. PL-569:147-188. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.doi:10.15144/PL-569.147
Norquest, Peter (1998). "Greenberg's Visit to Arizona".Mother Tongue Newsletter 31:25f.

References

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^Peter Erik Norquest (1936 – 2022).Legacy.com.
^Alumni Peter Norquest Publishes new book.University of Arizona, 2016.
^Doctoral Dissertation Research: Documentation of the Nadou Language of Hainan and the Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. Award #0236674,National Science Foundation.
^Norquest, Peter Kristian (2007).A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai (PhD dissertation). University of Arizona.hdl:10150/194203.
^Downey, Sean S.; Hallmark, Brian; Cox, Murray P.; Norquest, Peter; Lansing, J. Stephen (2008). "Computational Feature-Sensitive Reconstruction of Language Relationships: Developing the ALINE Distance for Comparative Historical Linguistic Reconstruction".Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.15 (4). Informa UK Limited:340–369.doi:10.1080/09296170802326681.ISSN 0929-6174.S2CID 4849552.
^Tumonggor, Meryanne K; Karafet, Tatiana M; Downey, Sean; Lansing, J Stephen; Norquest, Peter; Sudoyo, Herawati; Hammer, Michael F; Cox, Murray P (2014)."Isolation, contact and social behavior shaped genetic diversity in West Timor".Journal of Human Genetics.59 (9). Springer Science and Business Media LLC:494–503.doi:10.1038/jhg.2014.62.ISSN 1434-5161.PMC 4521296.PMID 25078354.
^Reconstructing Language Change and Variation. Award #1461492,National Science Foundation.
^Norquest, Peter (2021). "Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages".The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 225–246.doi:10.1515/9783110558142-013.ISBN 9783110558142.S2CID 238672319.
^Norquest, Peter. 2020.A Hypothesis on the Origin of Preglottalized Sonorants in Kra-Dai. 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Vancouver: Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia.doi:10.14288/1.0389866